People actively hunt wolves to protect their livestock. But in some places wolves are being hunted towards extinction. Wolves are a critical keystone species in a healthy ecosystem. By regulating prey populations, wolves enable many other species of plants and animals to flourish. Without predators, such as wolves, the system fails to support a natural level of biodiversity. Just like beavers, wolves aide the ability for the forests and grasses to grow and water to accumulate. Wolves are importa

“What we believe happened, and we have science to show some of this, is that wolves chose us. A population of wolves actually became attracted to humans,” Brian Hare, an evolutionary biologist, explains to Anderson Cooper. https://cbsn.ws/3XBwkeu | 60 Minutes